Slightly disconcerted, he abruptly demanded: "Have you anything to say ?" "Only this, Andrew Fraser," coldly replied the heiress.

"Your sending away the only woman whom I know in the world has marked you as a tyrant and a jailer." Her spirit was as unyielding as his own, and he winced.
"Ye'll find I had your father's warrant.

I'll go on to the end and obey him! There are to be no old associations kept up, and when ye come to your own ye can do all ye will! I'll go my way in my duty and do it as it seems right!" When he finished he was alone, for the daughter of Valerie Delavigne had passed him with a glance of unutterable contempt.
There was fire in the eye of the rebellious girl, and the elastic firmness of youth in her tread, but above stairs, in her own lonely rooms, her courage faded away quickly.

But she wrapped her sorrows in her own proud young heart and turned her eyes to the far East.

"Will he come ?" she murmured.
When the clumsy island serving girl had trimmed the fire and drawn the heavy curtains, Nadine Johnstone locked her doors.